Verbier Festival: 25 Years of Excellence (2018)
performed by
Alexander Kniazev (cello), Anna Kiknadze (vocals), Bryn Terfel (vocals), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Ekaterina Sergeeva (vocals), Elena Vitman (vocals), Eva-Maria Westbroek (vocals), Evgeny Kissin (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Iréne Theorin (vocals)
composed by
Alexander Zfasman, Antonin Dvorák, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Luciano Berio, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner
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Founded in 1994, the Verbier Festival is a high-profile musical event held each summer in the resort town of Verbier, Switzerland. The international festival has featured energetic performances by many celebrated musicians, such as Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Bryn Terfel, Yuja Wang, Mikhail Pletnev, Malena Ernman, and Daniil Trifonov, among many other guest artists. This four-CD set from Deutsche Grammophon presents concertos, chamber works, and operatic and vocal music, bristling with the excitement of live performance. Presented in a hardcover booklet, the package offers complete performances of works by Tchaikovsky, Berio, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Tsfasman, Brahms, and Dvorák, as well as the final act of Die Walküre by Wagner, so much of the music will be familiar to mainstream audiences, if not all casual classical listeners. Of course, the key to enjoying this set is a desire to hear the live interactions of the musicians with each other and the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Verbier...
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Founded in 1994, the Verbier Festival is a high-profile musical event held each summer in the resort town of Verbier, Switzerland. The international festival has featured energetic performances by many celebrated musicians, such as Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Bryn Terfel, Yuja Wang, Mikhail Pletnev, Malena Ernman, and Daniil Trifonov, among many other guest artists. This four-CD set from Deutsche Grammophon presents concertos, chamber works, and operatic and vocal music, bristling with the excitement of live performance ...
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- Symphony No. 6 in B minor ("Pathétique"), Op. 74
- Folk Songs, arranged for soprano & 7 instruments (or orchestra)
- Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
- Suite for piano & orchestra
- Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
- Piano Quintet in A major, B. 155 (Op. 81) (once listed as Op. 77)
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Hojotoho! Hojotoho!
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Schützt mich und helft in höchster Not!
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Nicht sehre dich Sorge um mich
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Steh! Brünnhild!
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Wo ist Brünnhild, wo die Verbrecherin?
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Hier bin ich, Vater: gebiete die Strafe!
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Wehe! Weh! Schwester, ach Schwester!
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: War es so schmählich, was ich verbrach
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Nicht weise bin ich, doch wusst' ich das eine
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: So tatest du, was so gern zu tun ich begehrt
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Du zeugtest ein edles Geschlecht
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind!
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Denn einer nur freie die Braut, der freier als ich, der Gott!
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Loge, hör! Lausche hieher!
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